Auction Highlights
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Egyptian Granite Head of a Dignitary
Sold for (Inc. bp): £28,600
Carved with soft facial features and carefully executed cosmetic lines around the eye, earring, and carefully detailed duplex wig with gently wavy curls; likely from the Ramesside Period; mounted on a custom-made stand. -
Etruscan Bronze Statuette of Herakles
Sold for (Inc. bp): £18,200
Modelled in the round with a muscular nude body, his club resting on his shoulder and the hair dressed in rows of tight, close-set curls underneath the Nemean lionskin hood with cloak billowing over his left arm, the paws tied across his chest; mounted on a custom-made display stand. -
Roman Marble Portrait of a Boy as Worshipper of Isis
Sold for (Inc. bp): £17,550
Carved head of a prepubescent worshipper of Isis, with soft facial features, long nose, small downturned mouth, heavy-lidded eyes, the whole giving the face a sombre or mournful appearance; the hair textured to indicate a short cut and combed forward across the scalp, sidelock above the right ear; mounted on a 16th century carved breccia upper body with leather cuirass and pteruges to right shoulder, cloak draped across the shoulders and fastened at the clavicle on the right side with a disc-brooch; socle base; some restoration. -
Larger Than Life-Size Roman Bronze Sandaled Foot
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39,000
Modelled in the round and originally part of a monumental statue, the naturalistic right foot encased in a trochades leather sandal with median reversed tongue secured with side straps and thick looped laces; the thick platform sole slightly curved, toes and nails well defined; mounted on a substantial custom-made display stand. -
Life-Size Roman Marble Sleeping Girl from a Sarcophagus Lid
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20,800
Modelled in the half-round, nude with eyelids half-closed in sleep; a drapery partly covering the head and wrapping around the lower body under the hips; the hairstyle similar to those of the Antonine Dynasty, the peaceful face supported by the hands and the ear pierced to accept an earring; iron reinforcing rod to the feet and the right arm's armilla a later replacement; upper head restored in Parian marble. -
Byzantine Porphyry Relief with Cross Surrounded by Two Birds
Sold for (Inc. bp): £28,600
An imposing panel divided to four sections by a central cross on a stepped pedestal, the lower and upper arm with branch-like extensions; the upper quadrants with a circlet surrounding a palm tree-shaped motif; each lower quadrant with a bird in profile facing back; mounted on a custom-made display stand. -
Carved Marble Memento Mori Skull
Sold for (Inc. bp): £16,900
Carved skull on a short neck with musculature and blood vessels; mandible in place with some teeth in sockets, wisps of hair adhering to the dome of the skull; one zygomatic bone partly absent; square-section socle base. -
'The Kelton' Gandharan Head of a Bodhisattva
Sold for (Inc. bp): £24,700
Carved in the half-round head of a Bodhisattva (probably Maitreya) with fine detailing to the arched brow, aquiline nose, neat moustache and full lips; the eyes heavily lidded, urna to the forehead, long open lobes to the ears; the hair in multi-stranded curling locks gathered into an ushnisha with brow-band below; heavily cleaned, conserved, and mounted on a custom-made stand; supplied with original old wooden base with collector's label: 'Head of Bodhisattva / Fine grain schist / Gandhara, Northwest Pakistan / 4th century'.
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Great Britain. Brunswick, Middlesex AE Halfpenny Token. Dated 1795.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1
PAYABLE AT J. KILVINGTONS, laureate head to left; ornament below / BRUNSWICK HALFPENNY, Britannia seated to left; resting her left arm on Union shield, and holding vertical spear with right hand; date in exergue. Edge: engrailed. DH.346. 9.45gr, 29mm, 6h
Good Fine.
Property of an Essex collector. -
Great Britain. Norwich, Norfolk AE Two Pence Token. 19th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
ROBT. BLAKE · COTTON & BOMBAZINE MANUFACTURER · NORWICH, weaving shuttle above Norwich ribbon banner / NORWICH TWO PENNY PIECE FOR CHANGE NOT PROFIT ·, the Arms of the City of Norwich, consisting of lion beneath triple-turreted castle gateway. Edge: Diagonal centre milling. Withers. 910; Davis. 17. 44.86gr, 41mm, 6h
About Extremely Fine.
Property of an Essex collector. -
Great Britain. London AE Penny Token. Dated 1854.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1
PAYABLE AT JOHN CLARK & Co 447 & 450 STRAND LONDON, head of young Queen Victoria with hair in bun to left; date below / PAYABLE AT JOHN CLARK & Co 447 & 450 STRAND LONDON around, CLARK'S PATENT LAMPS ARE THE BEST ONE GUINEA COMPLETE within inner circle, lamp with urn-shaped body and globe-shaped top; date below. No edge inscription. N.80737. 16.34gr, 34mm, 12h
Near Fine.
Property of an Essex collector. -
Great Britain. Sandwich, Kent AE Halfpenny Token. 19th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £9
Engraved by Dixon. The design is based on the seal of the town of Sandwich. MANUFACTURERS TRADE AND COMMERCE, arms combining the three Plantagenet lions and the three ships of the Cinque Ports (five coastal towns, Hastings, New Romney, Hythe, Dover and Sandwich that had a special agreement with the crown of England) / SANDWICH HALFPENNY TOKEN FOR, sailboat, two sailors at the bow, one at the stern, two busy with the sail, a small boat on deck. Edge inscription: PAYABLE AT THOMAS BUNDOCKS X · X · X · X. DH 39; Atkin 37. 9.46gr, 29mm, 6h
Very Fine.
Property of an Essex collector. -
Great Britain. Chatham & Dover, Kent AE Halfpenny Token. 19th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
KENTISH LIBERTY PRESERVED BY VIRTUE & COURAGE *, Kentish men (one with sword upraised, another with bow) on left, meeting William the Conqueror on horseback on right, date in exergue / PROSPERITY TO THE WOODEN WALLS OF OLD ENGLAND, stern view of man-of-war ship with name “ROYAL GEORGE”; below, KENT HALFPENNY 1795 T H D. Edge inscription: PAYABLE AT THOS HAYCRAFTS DEPTFORD. DH.14. 8.74gr, 29mm, 7h
Good Very Fine. Rare.
Property of an Essex collector. -
Great Britain. London AE 1 Shilling Token. 19th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
J. HURST JUN - BORO MKT - 19 PERCIVAL ST . E . C . / R.NEAL MAKER PERCIVALS, 1 S; large H stamped out. 5.85gr, 26mm, 5h
Extremely Fine. Extremely rare.
Property of an Essex collector. -
Great Britain. Norwich, Norfolk AE Farthing Token. Dated 1839.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
WILSONS NORWICH in two lines above date, CONFECTIONERS AND BAKERS around / The Arms of the City of Norwich: triple-towered castle above lion passant. Edge: Plain. Bell. 4050; Batty. 598; Withers2.8770. 3.63gr, 21mm, 12h
Extremely Fine.
Property of an Essex collector. -
Australia. George V, Two Shillings & Florin Group. Dated 1916-1927.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Group comprising: an Australian florin and a two shilling piece of George V. 22.51gr total, 28mm each
Very Fine - Good Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Australia. George V AR Shilling Group. Dated 1916-1925.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Group comprising: two Australian George V shillings. 11.26gr total, 23mm each
Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Australia. George V AE Penny Group. Dated 1922-1927.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1
Group comprising: two Commonwealth of Australian copper one Penny pieces. 18.69gr total, 30mm each
Good Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Bolivia, Colonial (as Alto Peru). Felipe II, King of Spain AR 8 Reales. 1556-1598.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,300
Potosí mint; uncertain date. Assayer A. Cob issue. Crowned Hapsburg coat-of-arms; P A to left, O VIII to right / Arms of Castille and Leon in quarters of Jerusalem cross, all within ornate quadrilobe. S P11; KM 5.1; Cal 674. 26.84gr, 38mm, 4h
Very Fine. Double obverse struck. Very rare assayer.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
Recovered 1985 from Atocha Shipwreck. -
Bolivia, Colonial. Felipe V, King of Spain AR 8 Reales. 1700-1724.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £416
Potosí mint; dated (1)719 P Y. Cob issue. Coat-of-arms / Pillars of Hercules set on waves. S P 43a; KM R31. 14.55gr, 38mm, 2h
Near Very Fine.
From the shipwreck of the Uruguayan treasure of Rio de la Plata; From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.